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Ryan Wilson happy to be fighting fit again

The forward tells Alasdair Reid how a Warriors captain helped him return to the rugby fold after a career-threatening incident in a kebab shop

Alasdair Reid

September 4 2015, 1:01am, The Times

Wilson, left, evades a tackle from Vunisa during the win against Italy on his return to the side after a banScottish News and Sport

Al Kellock doesn’t look like one of life’s natural peacemakers, but when Ryan Wilson broke his long media silence yesterday he revealed that it was the former Glasgow Warriors captain’s diplomatic intervention that brought one of Scottish rugby’s most embarrassing and damaging episodes to a close.

Last January, Wilson was fined £750 after being found guilty of assaulting Glasgow Hawks player Ally Maclay in a kebab shop in the city’s Great Western Road 15 months earlier. Subsequently, Wilson was also suspended from playing for the Warriors for three months and for Scotland for six. That second ban ended last Saturday when he played in the Scots’ 48-7 World Cup warm-up win over Italy at Murrayfield.